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GROUND FLOOR THEATRE

979 Springdale Rd #122
Austin, TX 78702



Review: DEATHTRAP at The Wimberley Players


by Sabrina Wallace - March 03, 2026

The Wimberley Players production of Deathtrap is a smart psychological thriller about ambition, legacy, and deception. The beautiful, restrained set supports suspense, and the strong cast shines all the way through....

Review: REEFER MADNESS, THE MUSICAL at Austin Community College


by Sabrina Wallace - March 03, 2026

Reefer Madness at ACC is a ferocious, laugh-out-loud takedown of moral panic, powered by fearless performances and razor-sharp satire. Campy, chaotic, and uncomfortably timely. Playing thru March 14th, 2026...

Review: WITCH at HYDE PARK THEATRE


by Sabrina Wallace - February 24, 2026

Hyde Park’s production of WITCH is sharp, funny, and quietly ferocious. A Devil with a grin, a witch that questions the status quo, a town built on bargains, and ambition that bites back. You’ll leave checking your own contracts. Through March 21st. ...

Review: THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL at City Theatre Austin


by Sabrina Wallace - February 24, 2026

Some plays rush. In Horton Foote’s award-winning play, The Trip to Bountiful, longing feels biblical, and patience gets tested, and City Theatre’s production reminds you how to sit still. Judith Laird is all steel beneath fragility, as an aging mother chasing the ghost of her childhood home. But...

Review: MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS at ZACH


by Joni Lorraine - February 19, 2026

What did our critic think of MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS at ZACH?...

Review: BEEHIVE: THE 60S MUSICAL at TexArts


by Sabrina Wallace - February 17, 2026

Big hair, bigger voices, and zero apologies. Beehive: The 60s Musical at TexARTS is pure jukebox joy: love songs turn into liberation anthems, wigs rise as the decade unfolds, and seven powerhouse women keep the audience laughing and singing along. Profound? No. A ridiculously good time? Abso-freaki...

Review: URINETOWN at Mary Moody Northen Theatre


by Sabrina Wallace - February 14, 2026

Urinetown now playing at MMNT - A musical so funny it hits like a warning. Corporate greed, drought, revolt—and the water still runs out. Laugh. Think. Repeat....

Review: SWING! at Georgetown Palace Theatre


by Sabrina Wallace - February 14, 2026

Swing! at Georgetown Palace Theatre proves that when the set disappears, the rhythm takes over. A bare stage, a blazing live band, powerhouse vocals, and choreography that fills every inch of space. The audience was tapping along all night, me included. Theatre adapts, communities rally, and the sho...

Review: THE LAST MATCH at FILIGREE THEATRE


by Sabrina Wallace - February 10, 2026

'The Last Match' by Anna Ziegler centers on U.S. Open semifinalists Tim Porter and Sergei Sergeyev, and their partners, blending onstage action with flashbacks and fourth-wall narration. The play explores ambition, love, and the personal cost of success....

Review: THE MOUNTAINTOP at Georgetown Palace Theatre


by Sabrina Wallace - February 10, 2026

Georgetown Palace’s The Mountaintop skips the monument and gives us the man. A powerful reminder that history isn’t made by saints, but by people who keep walking anyway....

Past Shows

TUBU Fest: Disability Short Fringe Theatre Festival
TUBU Fest: Disability Short Fringe Theatre Festival
Sep 25 – Sep 27, 2025

Returning for its second year, TUBU Fest is back! TUBU Fest is an award winning festival which produces 15 plays written by 15 playwrights from...

Throwback in 3's
Throwback in 3's
Sep 18 – Sep 20, 2025

Three artists working in different ways investigate the timelessness of art. Throwback in 3’s highlights the ways performance is an ephemeral art. Erica Santiago, Founder...

Waiting for the Bus
Waiting for the Bus
Nov 14 – Nov 23, 2024

Art Spark Texas will present a new work by James Burnside, Waiting for the Bus, Nov. 14-23 at the Ground Floor Theater. The world premier...

Yamel Cucuy
Yamel Cucuy
Oct 11 – Oct 19, 2024

Yamel Cucuy, an original play award-winning play by Glass Half Full Theatre, returns to Austin before heading to Los Angeles.Yamel Cucuy is the story of...

The Normal Heart
The Normal Heart
Sep 6 – Sep 21, 2024

Larry Kramer's landmark play about the early days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the fight for a public response.

Getting in Bed with the Pizza Man
Getting in Bed with the Pizza Man
Jul 10 – Jul 13, 2024

Fresh from her Los Angeles premiere and back by popular demand, Katie Folger returns to Austin with the one-woman show, Getting in Bed with the...

Clyde's
Clyde's
May 16 – Jun 1, 2024

At Clyde’s, the truck stop sandwich shop offers its formerly incarcerated kitchen staff a shot at redemption. Even as the shop’s callous owner tries to...

White Rabbit Red Rabbit
White Rabbit Red Rabbit
Mar 13

With no rehearsals, no director, a star who doesn't know the showt, and a script waiting in a sealed envelope on stage, internationally acclaimed White...

14/48
14/48
Mar 8 – Mar 9, 2024

Seven world-premiere plays are written, cast, directed, rehearsed, scored, designed, and performed in 24 hours. Then we do it all over again the next night...

Always A Boy
Always A Boy
Feb 15 – Mar 2, 2024

Always a Boy follows Joshua and his family during his gender transition

Jack & Aiden
Jack & Aiden
Nov 30 – Dec 16, 2023

When Aiden first meets Jack, it’s through the transactional world of gay male hookup apps– Aiden’s first exploration since transitioning. But as the two spend...

'Art'
'Art'
Nov 2 – Nov 18, 2023

When Serge purchases an all-white painting for a small fortune, his longtime friendship with Marc and Yvan is put to the test. As the arguments...

It’s About Time … To Celebrate
It’s About Time … To Celebrate
Sep 23

The Austin Gay Men’s Chorus (AGMC)  present their Fall Fundraiser: It’s About Time … To CelebrateIt’s about time: time to raise our voices, time to...

Jenna & the Whale
Jenna & the Whale
Aug 10 – Aug 26, 2023

Jenna, a young surfer, is swallowed by a whale after getting pulled out to sea by a rip current.Inside the belly of the whale she...

Sanctuary City
Sanctuary City
May 19 – Jun 2, 2023

In post-9/11 Newark, NJ, two teenagers who were brought to America as children become one another’s sanctuaries from harsh circumstances. When G becomes naturalized, she...

Mother of the Maid by Jane Anderson
Mother of the Maid by Jane Anderson
Apr 21 – May 6, 2023

Jarrott Productions ends their 22/23 Season with Jane Anderson’s Mother of the Maid at Ground Floor Theatre from April 21st thru May 6th!Mother of the Maid is...

PAGEANT: The Musical Comedy Beauty Contest
PAGEANT: The Musical Comedy Beauty Contest
Mar 3 – Mar 18, 2023

Like no beauty pageant you’ve ever seen before, six contestants (all played by men) vying for the title of Miss Glamouresse compete in swimsuit, talent,...

White Rabbit Red Rabbit starring p1nkstar
White Rabbit Red Rabbit starring p1nkstar
Mar 13

Staring the amazing pop star p1nkstar.With no rehearsals, no director, a star who doesn't know the showt, and a script waiting in a sealed envelope...

14/48
14/48
Feb 24 – Feb 25, 2023

After 2 years of missing your lovely faces we are thrilled to have y'all join us for the 7th annual quickest lil theatre festival in...

The Last Five Years
The Last Five Years
Dec 2 – Dec 18, 2022

An emotionally powerful and intimate musical about two New Yorkers in their twenties who fall in and out of love over the course of five...

The Caldera
The Caldera
Oct 25

A benefit reading of a new play by Sarah Saltwick.Lizzie and Maggie hit the open road in search of health care. Up in the New...

Matt & Ben
Matt & Ben
Oct 6 – Oct 8, 2022

In 1994, before Jason Bourne or Bennifer, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were just two struggling actors trying to make it in the movie business....

Anna in the Tropics
Anna in the Tropics
Aug 11 – Aug 27, 2022

ANNA IN THE TROPICS (winner of the 2003 Pulitzer) is a poignant and poetic play set in Florida in 1929 in a CubanAmerican cigar factory,...

A War of the Worlds
A War of the Worlds
Jun 2 – Jun 18, 2022

Both comic and gripping, A War of the Worlds re-imagines Orson Welles and his radio troupe, The Mercury Theatre, as a group of Black artists...

Dot
Dot
May 13 – May 28, 2022

The holidays are always a wild family affair at the Shealy house. But this year, Dotty and her three grown children gather with more than...

The Voices of Donny Hathaway
The Voices of Donny Hathaway
Apr 22 – Apr 23, 2022

On January 13th, 1979, the world lost Donny Hathaway, one of its greatest musicians and singers. In Robert King Jr.'s new thought-provoking musical, he introduces...

Drag Queen Story
Drag Queen Story
Mar 5

Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH) is just what it sounds likedrag queens reading stories to children in libraries, schools, and bookstores. DQSH captures the imagination...

Unexpected Joy
Unexpected Joy
Dec 3 – Dec 19, 2021

In modern-day Cape Cod, Joy, a baby boomer and proud hippie, is holding a memorial concert for the other half of her popular musical duo,...

The Laramie Project
The Laramie Project
Oct 21 – Oct 23, 2021

Austin Rainbow Theatre presents their very first production, The Laramie Project.The play examines the murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay Wyoming college student, through the...

rain falls special on me
rain falls special on me
Aug 26 – Sep 4, 2021

When it rains in Austin, Texas, the best place to stay dry through the night is behind the theatre. Weather and circumstance bring together Mikey,...

Trans Lives/Trans Voices
Trans Lives/Trans Voices
Jan 28 – May 27, 2021

Trans and Non-Binary people telling their own stories from their perspective.New stories premier each Thursday night at 7pm starting January 28th. with a live intro...

Abuelita's Christmas Carol
Abuelita's Christmas Carol
Dec 19

Shes no George Bailey! Shes no Ebenezer Scrooge. She is, however, spicier than the both of them. Her name is Rosita, aka Abuelita! Since 2006,...

Curbside Cabaret, A Celebration of Black Musicals
Curbside Cabaret, A Celebration of Black Musicals
Dec 11

Ground Floor Theatre is bringing together some of the top talent in Austin for virtual live performance -- Curbside Cabaret, A Celebration of Black Musical...

Single Black Female
Single Black Female
Feb 13 – Feb 29, 2020

Single Black Female is a two-woman show with rapid-fire comic vignettes that explore the lives of thirty-something African American middle-class women in urban America as...

Next to Normal
Next to Normal
Dec 5 – Dec 21, 2019

Ground Floor Theatre has teamed up with Deaf Austin Theatre for our December Musical In keeping with GFTs mission of producing ground breaking works by...

HANG
HANG
Oct 3 – Oct 19, 2019

A crime has been committed. The victim has a choice to make. The criminal is waiting. A shattering new play about one woman’s unspeakable decision....

TRANSom
TRANSom
Aug 15 – Aug 31, 2019

This play, devised by the all trans/non binary ensemble, tells the story of a 'found family' living together in the same house. Together, they experience...

Dex & Abby
Dex & Abby
May 16 – Jun 1, 2019

Sean and Corey are enjoying the beginning of a relationship and their new home. Their dogs, Abby and Dex, are not. Abby, Seans young, excitable...

black do crack (remount)
black do crack (remount)
May 1

black do crack is an invitation to transform. It is an exploration of the mythology of the strong black woman. The mother who is not...

Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment
Mar 21 – Apr 6, 2019

As a police inspector investigates a gruesome murder, we journey through the mind of a criminal. What did he do? Why did he do it?...

black do crack
black do crack
Feb 14 – Mar 2, 2019

black do crack is an invitation to transform. It is an exploration of the mythology of the strong black woman. The mother who is not...

Fun Home
Fun Home
Dec 6 – Dec 22, 2018

One of the most groundbreaking productions ever to hit Broadway, Fun Home is the winner of five 2015 Tony Awards including Best Musical. Based on...

Nevermore
Nevermore
Oct 25 – Nov 10, 2018

Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe is a unique and wildly theatrical musical play combining haunting music, poetic storytelling, and...

There and Back
There and Back
Aug 9 – Aug 25, 2018

World premiere of There and Back, by Austin playwright Raul Garza. This new work opens up dialogue about the current immigration crisis with an eye...

White Rabbit Red Rabbit
White Rabbit Red Rabbit
Mar 15 – Mar 31, 2018

WHITE RABBIT RED RABBIT has been called a play. But it’s a lively, global sensation that no-one is allowed to talk about.   Its award-winning...

Gibberish Mostly
Gibberish Mostly
Sep 21 – Sep 30, 2017

A young woman yearns to communicate with her parents as they struggle to understand what’s going on in her mind. Gibberish Mostly takes an unusual...

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